March 2010: Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux received an MIT School of Engineering teaching award, the “Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching”. This award is given to one faculty member each in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering to acknowledge “the tradition of high quality engineering education at MIT”.

December 2009: Ms. Melissa Kaufman (a MechE undergraduate UROP student in our group) has been accepted as a PhD student at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island. Congratulations Melissa!

Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling – session on Predictability and Data Assimilation, Mount Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA. A group photo of the attendees can be found here (as a PDF).

Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux has given and been invited to give lectures at the following workshops and schools:

• 22-27 September 2013 – International Workshop on “Uncovering Transport Barriers in Geophysical Flows”, Banff, Canada.
• 8-12 July 2013 – Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling and Prediction” mini-symposium, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• 24-28 June 2013 – Advanced School on Data Assimilation. University of Bologna, Italy.
• 27-29 May 2013 – 8th workshop on data assimilation methods for large models (EnKF 2013), Bergen, Norway.
• 17-22 February 2013 – International Workshop on “Probabilistic Approaches to Data Assimilation for Earth Systems”, Banff, Canada.
• 27-29 November 2012 – “SANGOMA – Stochastic Assimilation for the Next Generation Ocean Model Applications”, University of Liege, Belgium.
• 4-5 June 2012 – “Modeling the Shelfbreak Front” for the “Oceanography of the Continental Shelf and Slope: Pioneer Array Science” Workshop, SMAST, New Bedford, MA.
• 18 November 2011 – Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory Seminar, MIT
• 15 November 2011 – Gloucester’s New Maritime Port Economy Summit, Gloucester, MA
• 4 November 2011 – Mechanical Engineering Colloquium: Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Ocean Engineering, MIT
• 24 October 2011 – “Working with Uncertainty Workshop: Representation, Quantification, Propagation, Visualization, and Communication of Uncertainty”, Providence, RI.
• 27-29 September 2011 – Ocean Integration in Earth System Prediction Capability Data Assimilation, University of Maryland
• 26 June – 1 July 2011 – Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling – session on Predictability and Data Assimilation, Mount Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA
  A group photo of the attendees can be found here (as a PDF).
• 6-10 June 2011 – Large-scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota
• 22 April 2011 – Physical Oceanography Seminars, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
• 19 October 2010 – Maritime Rapid Environmental Assessment Conference: Quantifying, Predicting, Exploiting Uncertainties in Marine Environments, Keynote Lecture, NURC, Lerici, Italy
• 5 August 2010 – ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Montreal, Canada
• 28-30 June 2010 – 2^nd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cambridge, MA
• 23-25 June 2010 – Workshop on Data Assimilation and Climate Research, Boulder, CO
• 7-11 June 2010 – Advanced School on Data Assimilation, Bologna, Italy
• 27 April 2010 – MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)

Members of the group will be attending IMUM 2011 – The 10th InternationalbWorkshop on Multiscale (Un-)structured Mesh Numerical Modelling for coastal, shelf and global ocean dynamics. Prof. Lermusiaux is a member of the Organizing Committee.